Best way to get catalog information

[Heber Rodriguez]

Hello everyone,

I'm dealing with having to download the criteria and ad catalogs and as I can see it can be done via services like the AdGroupAdService for downloading the ads information for example or it can be done via the Ad Performance Report, taking only information from the Ad and not any metric.

By using the service first I have to get the Ad Groups per account and then download the information from the Ads or Criteria.

By using the Ad Performance Report, I choose the fields that correspond to the Ads or Criteria and download it without dates restrictions, this way with one call I can download all the Ads or Criteria of a given account.

What would be the best approach and why?

Thanks.

Regards.

Heber.

[Bharani Cherukuri (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Heber,

Depending on your use case, you will be able to use both API services and reports to pull the data. Since you're looking to pull the Ads in an AdGroup, based on the number of results and fields that they are looking for, they could decide if to use API services or reports. If there are large data sets and if all the attributes are supported by the reports, we recommend using reports.

On the other hand if you're looking to pull data for a specific Ad or criterion, it is recommended to use service and filter just for that entity. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Bharani, AdWords API Team